Job 30 ISV NIV Parallel

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1"But now they mock me; men who are far younger than I, whose fathers I would have hated to entrust with my own sheep dogs.

1"But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

2Furthermore, what could I have gained from men whose strength is gone?

2Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?

3Unproductive due to poverty and hunger, they could only scratch in parched soil, devastated and desolated.

3Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.

4"They would pluck off herbs from salt marshes to eat; and roots of the broom shrub for food.

4In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom bush.

5Driven away from human company, they were shouted at as though they were thieves.

5They were banished from human society, shouted at as if they were thieves.

6They lived in the most dangerous of ravines, in holes in the ground, and among rocks.

6They were forced to live in the dry stream beds, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

7They bray like donkeys among the bushes and huddle together under the desert weeds.

7They brayed among the bushes and huddled in the undergrowth.

8Sons of fools and of uncertain reputation, they have been driven from the land by scourging."

8A base and nameless brood, they were driven out of the land.

9"Now, I've become the object of their mocking melodies; I'm nothing but a fool's proverb to them!

9"And now those young men mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

10They abhor me—they keep their distance from me; but they don't refrain from spitting at the sight of me.

10They detest me and keep their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

11But God has loosened his cord and afflicted me; so they've cast off all restraints in my presence.

11Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they throw off restraint in my presence.

12"A wretched crowd ambushes me to my right; they trip my feet; they build up their path of calamity for me.

12On my right the tribe attacks; they lay snares for my feet, they build their siege ramps against me.

13They tear up my pathways; they profit from my destruction, and they need no help to do this!

13They break up my road; they succeed in destroying me. 'No one can help him,' they say.

14They come like those who breach through a wall; as everything crashes around me they'll roll on and on!

14They advance as through a gaping breach; amid the ruins they come rolling in.

15My greatest fears have overcome me; my honor is assaulted as though by a wind storm; my prosperity evaporates like a morning cloud."

15Terrors overwhelm me; my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.

16"Now, my soul pours itself out; the time of my affliction has taken control of me.

16"And now my life ebbs away; days of suffering grip me.

17The night racks my bones; and the pain that gnaws on me will not rest.

17Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest.

18My clothes are disheveled by his forceful treatment of me; he restricts my movement like the collar of my cloak.

18In his great power God becomes like clothing to me; he binds me like the neck of my garment.

19"He tossed me into the mire; I've become like dust and ashes.

19He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

20I cry for help to you, but you won't answer me; I stand still, but you only look at me.

20"I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me.

21You changed toward me, and now you're cruel to me; with your mighty hand you are persecuting me;

21You turn on me ruthlessly; with the might of your hand you attack me.

22you carried me off in a wind storm, making me ride on it while you toss me about as the storm roars around me.

22You snatch me up and drive me before the wind; you toss me about in the storm.

23I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."

23I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

24"Surely he won't stretch his hand against the needy, will he, especially if they cry to him in their calamity?

24"Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.

25Haven't I wept for the one who is going through hard times? Haven't I grieved for the needy?

25Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?

26I have hoped for good, but evil came instead; I have hoped for light, but darkness came.

26Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.

27I'm boiling mad inside, and I won't remain silent; the time for my affliction to confront me has arrived.

27The churning inside me never stops; days of suffering confront me.

28"In growing darkness, I walked without sunlight; I stood in the congregation to cry for help.

28I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

29I've become a brother to jackals, and a friend to ostriches.

29I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of owls.

30My skin turns black all over me; and my bones seem burned from the heat.

30My skin grows black and peels; my body burns with fever.

31But my harp is in mourning; my flute plays only songs for those who are weeping." Job Asserts His Moral Innocence

31My lyre is tuned to mourning, and my pipe to the sound of wailing.

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